Pub Date : 2019-01-02DOI: 10.1080/19369816.2019.1613787
C. Morris
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Pub Date : 2019-01-02DOI: 10.1080/19369816.2019.1614754
Mariana Françozo, Maria Patricia Ordóñez
{"title":"Introduction to the special issue ‘Collecting Latin America in the nineteenth century’","authors":"Mariana Françozo, Maria Patricia Ordóñez","doi":"10.1080/19369816.2019.1614754","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19369816.2019.1614754","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52057,"journal":{"name":"Museum History Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19369816.2019.1614754","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41375180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-07-03DOI: 10.1080/19369816.2018.1541945
Kate Hill, J. Abt, Bronwyn Labrum
{"title":"From the editors","authors":"Kate Hill, J. Abt, Bronwyn Labrum","doi":"10.1080/19369816.2018.1541945","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19369816.2018.1541945","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52057,"journal":{"name":"Museum History Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19369816.2018.1541945","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46751023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-07-03DOI: 10.1080/19369816.2018.1529221
Isabel M. Rodríguez-Marco, Ana Cabrera-Lafuente
ABSTRACT This article discusses, from the perspective of women’s history, the activity of the National Museum of Decorative Arts of Madrid (MNAD) during its first thirty years (1912–1942). This work is mainly focused on the role of the Museum in promoting the artistic education of Spanish women, an undertaking which is only possible in a political and intellectual context dominated by a reforming liberalism and which results in a deep understanding that, for the general good of society, women must be better educated. It also examines the development of the Museum’s textile collection, on the grounds that it is closely related to the appreciation of work done by women, by the Museum’s curators and by the Spanish intellectual élite of the time. The essay concludes with the idea that the MNAD was following the model established several decades before in Britain by the Victoria and Albert Museum, even though it is possible to detect some differences which are unique to this particular case.
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Pub Date : 2018-07-03DOI: 10.1080/19369816.2018.1527515
G. Swinney, R. Mcgowan
ABSTRACT A description by William Jardine of Applegirth of the state of taxidermy in early nineteenth-century Edinburgh draws attention to the agency of the University of Edinburgh’s Janitor, John Wilson, in contributing to the University’s Natural History Museum, in the building of his own private museum collection, and in the teaching of ‘practical zoology’. This description has prompted the present critical examination of Wilson’s status and pedagogic practices, the sites in which he operated, and his influence on Scottish taxidermy.
{"title":"The Janitor and his museum: John Wilson (1775–1832) and the teaching of ‘practical zoology’ in early nineteenth-century Edinburgh","authors":"G. Swinney, R. Mcgowan","doi":"10.1080/19369816.2018.1527515","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19369816.2018.1527515","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT A description by William Jardine of Applegirth of the state of taxidermy in early nineteenth-century Edinburgh draws attention to the agency of the University of Edinburgh’s Janitor, John Wilson, in contributing to the University’s Natural History Museum, in the building of his own private museum collection, and in the teaching of ‘practical zoology’. This description has prompted the present critical examination of Wilson’s status and pedagogic practices, the sites in which he operated, and his influence on Scottish taxidermy.","PeriodicalId":52057,"journal":{"name":"Museum History Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19369816.2018.1527515","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47546981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-07-03DOI: 10.1080/19369816.2018.1526453
Muriel Gómez Pradas
ABSTRACTIn this article we take as a case study the provenance of the Japanese collection kept in the Ethnology Museum of Barcelona, Spain. This interesting collection came to a Spanish museum, thanks to Eudald Serra (1911−2002), a sculptor, ceramicist, designer, photographer and, above all, a great traveller. Eudald Serra lived in Japan from 1935 to 1948 and directed the acquisition trips conducted in situ for the Barcelona Ethnology Museum in 1957, 1961 and 1964. The history of this museum's collection is an extraordinary example of the formation of a collection in a newly-created public museum, but with the criteria of a private one (that is to say, each object was selected and purchased following the collector's own aesthetic guidelines and interests). Serra's aesthetic preferences and interest in Mingei Undo mark this museum collection, making it unique in Spain. Unpublished material, such as Serra's travel diary and field notes, as well as letters and official documents, have been essential for this...
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Pub Date : 2018-07-03DOI: 10.1080/19369816.2018.1529268
Ana Baeza Ruiz
ABSTRACTAs historians, we often still rely on physical archives to weave together piecemeal histories about museums, and a considerable body of critique has pointed to the archive’s partial qualities. In this respect, the growing interest in the study of gender and identity in museums has often overlooked how institutional archives – and the logics that govern them – may be also gendered. The paper addresses this problem, looking at scholarly work in archive studies to advocate a shift in the study of museum histories from ‘archives-as-things’ to ‘archiving-as-process’. New directions in museum studies, it argues, must attend to the materiality of museum archives regarding their construction of gendered narratives. The article casts light on this problem through the case study of a female typist at the National Gallery in the late 1940s. By exposing the rationality of the Gallery’s ‘archival forms’, the article suggests that such findings help us reframe the narratives of museum professionalisation about ...
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Pub Date : 2018-01-02DOI: 10.1080/19369816.2018.1415425
John Hennessey
ABSTRACT This article uses 1910 Japan–British Exhibition as a case study for examining the strategies employed by Japanese leaders to win Western acceptance for Japan as a ‘great power’ in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Like other contemporaneous imperial powers, Japanese leaders employed colonial imagery and discourses of otherness at large expositions to raise their status compared to ostensibly inferior colonised peoples. This article argues that contrary to some previous assertions, Japan presented its history and traditional culture at Western expositions not as an intentional concession to Western Orientalism but rather in an attempt to show that an alternative path to modernity was possible. Though largely successful in winning Western recognition as an important empire, Japanese leaders were nonetheless unable to fully escape becoming victim to the very colonial tools they sought to employ.
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Pub Date : 2018-01-02DOI: 10.1080/19369816.2018.1429107
Johannes Zechner
{"title":"Museum storage and meaning: Tales from the crypt (Research in Museum Studies, vol. 14)","authors":"Johannes Zechner","doi":"10.1080/19369816.2018.1429107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19369816.2018.1429107","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52057,"journal":{"name":"Museum History Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19369816.2018.1429107","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42734641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-01-02DOI: 10.1080/19369816.2018.1425956
Matthew Laubacher
ABSTRACT In an eighteen-month period between 1907 and 1908, the Field Museum of Natural History experienced a small exodus of qualified assistants and museum leaders to more palatable and supportive positions elsewhere. Chief among the concerns of those fleeing the museum, including assistants Edmund Heller and Harry Swarth, as well as taxidermy chief Carl Akeley, was the ‘unbearable’ culture of the museum due to arbitrary and ineffective leadership, including the firing of a long-time Zoology Curator Daniel Giraud Elliot. This was one of many similar instances at the Chicago museum in its early history, and as such, serves as a case study of both the museum’s dysfunction, as well as the impact of inefficient leadership in the scientific world more generally.
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